1945 British victory parade in Berlin

thumb|British troops march down the Charlottenburger Chaussee in Berlin.|alt=Three column of British troops marching down the Charlottenburg Chaussee in Berlin The 1945 British victory parade in Berlin was a military parade held by the British Army on 21 July 1945 in Berlin, the capital of the then-defeated Germany.https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/06/a6773006.shtml BBC – WW2 People's War – The War of Ernest H Foard MM, 1939 to 1945, Part 3 www.bbc.co.uk 8 August 2023 https://www.thetravellingtom.com/3-days-in-berlin 3 Days in Berlin 7 August 2020 The Travelling Tom 8 August 2023 It took place on Charlottenburger Chaussee, which is west of Brandenburg Gate. The parade took place a month after the Moscow Victory Parade of 1945 and over six weeks before the Berlin Victory Parade.http://www.desertratsorg.btinternet.co.uk/VEDay.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20070827044545/http://www.desertratsorg.btinternet.co.uk/VEDay.htm dead 2007-08-27 VE Day & Berlin Victory Parade Commemoration Page 27 August 2007 21 October 2019https://books.google.com/books?id=9_4mCgAAQBAJ&dq=1945+British+Berlin+Victory+Parade&pg=PT248 1945 The Second World War in Photographs: A Brave New World John Christopher Campbell McCutcheon June 15, 2015 Amberley Publishing Limited 9781445622316 Google Books It was attended by Winston Churchillhttps://www.ww2online.org/image/british-military-parade-berlin-germany-21-july-1945 A British military parade in Berlin, Germany on 21 July 1945 | The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories www.ww2online.org in his position as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Commander-in-Chief of the 21st Army Group.http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205196568 Winston Churchill in Berlin, July 1945 | Imperial War Museums Iwm.org.uk 21 August 1945 20 October 2019 Clement Attlee, who was Leader of the Labour Party at the time and succeeded Churchill 5 days later, also attended. The parade occurred during the Potsdam Conference which had begun 4 days earlier with the participation of Churchill, Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin and President Harry S. Truman.https://berlinexperiences.com/british-victory-parade-1945-desert-rats/ British Victory Parade 1945: Desert Rats! May Your Glory Ever Shine! July 19, 2018 Berlin Experiences 10,000 troops of the British Army took part in the event.https://berlinexperiences.com/allied-victory-parade-1945-forgotten-parade/ Allied Victory Parade 1945: The Forgotten Parade September 7, 2018 Berlin Experiences Attendees also included Henry H. Arnold and George Marshall, both five-star Generals.https://m.ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=17544 [Photo] General Henry Arnold, Marshal Charles Portal, Field Marshal Harold Alexander, General George Marshall, and Admiral Ernest King at the British victory parade in Berlin, Germany, 21 Jul 1945 WW2DB 22 October 2019 12 April 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200412060644/https://m.ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=17544 dead See also Moscow Victory Parade of 1945 London Victory Celebrations of 1946 New York City Victory Parade of 1946 References External links Category:Aftermath of World War II in Germany Category:1945 in Germany Category:Victory parades Category:Germany–United Kingdom relations Category:1945 in military history Category:Berlin in World War II Category:July 1945 in Europe Category:Military parades in Germany Category:British forces in Germany